Alas, it continues to happen to me. Everytime I reach that peak point, something hits me, and I'm down for the count (well, at least a week). It's interesting how the body tends to fight against us right when progress happens. The other crappy part is that if you don't take care of it, another issue arises, and possibly another until you can no longer ignore it. So, mine started with a neck strain, that happened while benching. I ended the workout early and tossed on some ice. Later had the wife rub in some biofreeze. Took the following day off and repeated with ice and biofreeze. Couldn't handle another day off, so with a sore neck, I hit upper body. I felt ok, and my neck loosened up a little. The next day, when stretching out my left arm, a sharp pain shot through my shoulder. Apparently, using the heavier weights without back support on my military press tweaked my shoulder. Ice, biofreeze, etc. The next day was legs, and all went well until squats. I tweaked my lcl (lateral collateral ligament) in high school, 10 years ago, and it still haunts me to this day. It happened again, a sharp pain in the knee. Here we are almost 2 weeks later, and I think it's time for my stubborn self to take a week off. My only issue I continue to fight with is the mighty mouse in my head that makes me think a week off puts me a week behind. Regardless of the fact that a major injury could put me out for a month or more. Ahhh, the ego I/we face as lifters. The other issue is that I start work tomorrow. This is a good thing, and it might be good for some to take a week off of lifting to get organized at work. However, I know exercise will be hard to get in once I start lifting, especially since I could hit the weights at my leisure while laid off.
most definitely. i just have a hard time taking it off, so my body ends up creating a reason to do so. stupid body doesn't know that it's a machine, and is not designed to fail.
